Has anyone heard the new Spendor SA1 yet?

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    FrankDeckard

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    I am a long-term Spendor user (use the Classic series now in my HT) and was wondering if anyone here had tried the new SA1 yet.

    I am assembling a system for my office and was wondering if the SA1 was the "new" Spendor sound or an improvement on the Classic range.
     
    FrankDeckard, Dec 24, 2008
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    bottleneck talks a load of rubbish

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    Hi Frank

    I remember you shopping for the LV speakers a while ago.

    What's your impression?


    Cheers
    Chris
     
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    Chris,

    They don't suck.
    :)
     
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    SA1 is simply music, a miracle comming out from such a small boxes and you don't have a clue, where this music is comming from.
     
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    Absolutely stunning mini monitors. Demo'd them alongside the S5e's, hooked up to the EMM Labs CDSA and Maestro monoblocks. The S5e's displayed remarkable timing and I could understand why they had been so highly rated. The SA1s, although with a physical limitation to the lower regions when compared to the 2.5 way S5e, had even more snap and focus to the vocals, exhibiting a sound you could hardly believe from such small speakers. A little bit more forward than the S5e's, they are still by no stretch of the imagination "shouty". They are indeed power hungry, but now grace my Primare/Furutech system, after a search that included B&W 803s, KEF and various others...

    Stunning speakers.
     
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    You could try Aurousals A1's, slightly bigger than the Spendors but worth a demo for the price.
     
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    SMEagol Because we wants it...

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    Cool by me... Well done on the review Simon. :)
     
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